In the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals, Rodrigo, who came off the bench in the second half, scored two goals in 91 seconds to help Real Madrid go from a 3-5 to 5-5 on aggregate and drag it into extra time. In the end, Real Madrid won the penalty with Benzema in extra time, and eliminated Manchester City 6-5 on aggregate to advance to the final.
Champions League final matchup: Liverpool vs Real Madrid. This is a repeat of the Champions League final four years ago, when Karius made two super big mistakes, allowing Real Madrid to beat Liverpool 3-1 to complete the unprecedented three consecutive Champions League titles. After eliminating Villarreal, Liverpool star Salah said that he wanted to play Real Madrid in the final, on the one hand, he wanted revenge, on the other hand, he thought it would be more difficult to play Manchester City.
After Zidane left, is Real Madrid's metaphysics still there? In just 56 days, Real Madrid have performed three Champions League miracles at the Bernabeu, staging an alternative hat-trick. Real Madrid became the first team after the Champions League restructuring to be able to eliminate their opponents after losing one of the two legs of the three stages of the knockout rounds.
Ancelotti had just become the first manager to claim the top five european league titles five days ago, and now he has set a new record in the Champions League. On this night, he overtook Ferguson, Lippi and Klopp to become the first manager in history to lead the team to the Champions League final for the fifth time, after winning three of the previous four finals.
Guardiola was devastated. This is the sixth time in guardiola's managerial career that he has been eliminated in the Champions League semi-finals, tied with Jose Mourinho as the team with the most number of exits in the Champions League semi-finals. The last time Guardiola led a team to a Champions League title was in the 10/11 season, when barca, who he coached, beat Ferguson's Manchester United 3-1 in the Champions League final. Since leaving Barca and Messi, Guardiola has not been able to lead the team to the Champions League in the past 8 years, and the closest thing to winning the title was reaching the final last season, but unfortunately he was defeated by Chelsea and lost the title.